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Maître Bontran, the celebrated Parisian lawyer, who for ten years had pleaded and won all divorce actions brought by ill-assorted couples, opened the door of his consulting-room and drew back to admit the new client.
He was a stout red-faced man with thick fair whiskers, corpulent, full-blooded and vigorous. He bowed.